In the interactive work Our Lady of I Can Be Anything You Want Me To, Afrah Shafiq presents the diverse imaginations that have lent form to the Marian figure all over the world, as she accumulates a user-built archive of still further benefic potentialities that can be lent to what she represents. The variously depicted icon of Mother Mary becomes a vessel into which we feed data, following the logic of machine learning, eliciting intuitive meaning and insight from an expanse of information that could potentially be contradictory as well. Taking off from historical precedent, the project is able to subvert the frequent imagination of the biblical figure as virginal, white, patient and forgiving, the ongoing archival project allows the possibility to reimagine her identity in radical, decolonial, syncretic, hyperlocal variations while also mirroring the need, desires and aspirations that inform each interpretation.
Visit ourladyofIcanbeanythingyouwantmeto to play with the shell of the Marian figure, explore her evolution and render your own version that will contribute to her constantly morphing form.
阿夫拉．夏菲克透過作品〈我可以是你想要我成為的任何東西〉，呈現遍佈世界各地的聖母形象，而藝術家也建立一個由使用者建立的檔案庫，儲存更多聖母所可能代表的意涵。
。聖母馬利亞的形象成為一個讓人輸入資訊的容器，依循機器學習的邏輯，從眾多可能互相矛盾的資訊中擷取直覺式意義與洞見。此創作企劃從歷史先例出發，拖翻人們對於聖母的既定想像：童貞、白皮膚、有耐性、富有寬恕之心，而檔案計畫則讓我們有機會將聖母想像為激進、去殖民化、折衷、超本地化的版本，同時又能夠滿足各個詮釋當中的需求與渴望。
請參閱網站 ourladyoficanbeanythingyouwantmeto 並點選馬利亞圖樣以顯示各種不同版本的聖母樣貌，或者建造屬於你的版本。